Jesse Choper quoted in Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2012

“It’s a pretty simply math problem,” he said. When a city has racially polarized voting and a minority group of voters, he said, “you get nothing in a citywide single district election.”

The North Coast Journal Weekly of Politics, People & Art, February 23, 2012 by Zach St. George
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/news/2012/02/23/justice-ashes/

In cases when police don’t have time to get a warrant, Choper explained, there are circumstances that make it legally excusable to enter someone’s property warrantless. Those are called “exigent circumstances.” He also said that on the bomb squad’s way to the bomb, whatever evidence of other criminal activity that was in plain view would be usable in court.

-KPIX-TV, February 6, 2012 Host Allen Martin
http://cbsloc.al/AF7xxm

There is validity in the argument that … striking down Prop 8 would be a victory for equal protection. “And that is to say, this proposition evidenced hostility or an effort that shows dislike for a minority group—and that is gays and lesbians. If you can show that, then the court says there is no rational basis, it is hostility…. therefore, it is pretty much automatically unconstitutional.”

-Reuters, February 8, 2012 by Peter Henderson and Dan Levine
http://reut.rs/zighhq

Jesse Choper, a University of California, Berkeley, Constitutional law professor disagreed that the ruling would affect whether the high court took the case. However, the Supreme Court justices also might prefer a chance to limit any ruling to California, he said.

-The Christian Science Monitor, February 8, 2012 by Daniel B. Wood
http://bit.ly/zS3SNH

“The chances of them taking it are very high,” he says. “The issue is the striking down of a vote by people in the biggest state in the country on a very controversial issue that everyone is watching.”

-San Francisco Chronicle, February 8, 2012 by Debra J. Saunders
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/07/EDTG1N44P4.DTL&tsp=1

“It’s simply one step along the way,” opined Jesse Choper, a UC Berkeley law professor.

Bloomberg, February 3, 2012 by William McQuillen
http://bloom.bg/zAql74

“They were certainly in a formal way in session, though the administration will take the view that this was more or less fiction,” said Jesse Choper, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, who isn’t involved in the case. Challenges may continue until courts provide definitive guidance, Choper said.

The Bay Citizen, Pulse of the Bay, February 2, 2012 by Ryan Jacobs
http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/investigations-uc-police-tactics-delayed/

Berkeley Police Review Board chair and law professor Jesse H. Choper cited lack of “meaningful” student input as the primary reason for the delay in a letter on Monday to Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau. He noted that students were away on winter break during most of December and January.

The Daily Californian, January 31, 2012 by Chloe Hunt
http://www.dailycal.org/2012/01/31/police-review-board-process-stalled/

In a Jan. 27 letter to Birgeneau, UC Berkeley School of Law professor and chair of the board Jesse Choper stated that the board’s planning was delayed due to insufficient student input because of winter break. The board hopes to hold hearings about the protest events before the end of February and to produce a report shortly afterwards, according to the letter.

KSRO-FM, January 10, 2012 Host Tony Landucci
http://www.ksro.com/Programs/KSROAMNews/Interviews/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10333939

“I think, at a certain point, the Court’s going to have to reconsider whether someone can be held without trial and detained for the duration of the hostilities, no matter how long they last.”

-PolitiFact, December 20, 2011 by Louis Jacobson
http://bit.ly/vxLTZu

“There are certainly cases in which the Supreme Court has held the executive branch unconstitutional.” Probably the biggest, he said, was Youngstown Co. vs. Sawyer (1952), in which the court overruled an executive order by President Harry Truman to nationalize steel mills to avert a nationwide strike.

-San Francisco Chronicle, December 25, 2011 by Bob Egelko
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2011/12/25/history-not-gingrich-says-presidents-obey-courts/

Choper said allowing a president to override the courts would be particularly dangerous in cases involving the Bill of Rights, where the judiciary is often the last line of defense for an individual facing the power of government.

The Daily Californian, December 1, 2011 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/12/01/occupy-cal-demonstrators-pack-police-review-board-meeting/

The meeting closed with remarks from Choper, who said that he understood the “sincerity and intensity” of the demonstrators’ feelings and hoped that they understood the intention of the board to carry out an impartial investigation.

Rocket Lawyer, November 15, 2011 by Charley Moore and Eva Arevuo
http://legallyeasy.rocketlawyer.com/the-road-to-citizens-united-93874

Echoing Stevens, Berkeley Law professor Jesse Choper, who we spoke to in last week’s podcast, agreed that corporate money was a dangerous injection into the democratic system: “the force of big sums of money is really a very corruptive force in American democracy.”